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[DesertRoo]

A good podcast from a short sellers perspective.. explains the mechanisms of what happened.

The Grant Williams Podcast - Short Shrift - Grant Williams

Grant invites two accomplished shortsellers, Marc Cohodes and Bill Fleckenstein to discuss the wild gyrations in equity markets in recent days as a

www.grant-williams.com

 

[Val Keating]

Trading on tick is the foundation of the contemporary stock market

Where do they borrow the money from? It’s strange when you think about it. The money never really exists. It really is fugazi. if it’s for loans (there’s no real money to be seen) to buy shorts (which there’s nothing physically there). The whole thing is a scam.

 

[Del191229]

Where do they borrow the money from? It’s strange when you think about it. The money never really exists. It really is fugazi. if it’s for loans (there’s no real money to be seen) to buy shorts (which there’s nothing physically there). The whole thing is a scam.

Fed just prints money and injects it into the system. Been doing it for over a decade now.

 

[Val Keating]

Fed just prints money and injects it into the system. Been doing it for over a decade now.

Wow so there’s no real value. Jeez. They’ll have to change it now because this will happen all over again.

 

[D23D]

Just saw a satirical add on the tv about
Not reporting crimes. If you see a crime, just walk away!
They use Julian Assange and others as examples of those that report crimes that our government ignores.
I don’t usually even notice political ads but good on whoever created this

 

[Del191229]

Wow so there’s no real value. Jeez. They’ll have to change it now because this will happen all over again.

The whole thing collapsed in 2008/09. Like broke. Doesn't work anymore.

This zombie bullshit that relies on endless made up money is the result of people with religious faith in markets being unable to comprehend their God is bullshit.

As you say, there's no actual value

 

[Val Keating]

The whole thing collapsed in 2008/09. Like broke. Doesn't work anymore.

This zombie bullshit that relies on endless made up money is the result of people with religious faith in markets being unable to comprehend their God is bullshit.

As you say, there's no actual value

That’s why they use that bullshit lingo. They don’t want people to pay attention

 

[DesertRoo]

 

[andana]

 

[Val Keating]

Can’t wait to watch the movie

 

[Tectonic]

What's the basis on these reports?

 

[Val Keating]

What's the basis on these reports?

There’s no real evidence. He’s just put it out there off the vibe I reckon

 

[Tectonic]

There’s no real evidence. He’s just put it out there off the vibe I reckon

Official title of the least intelligent administration in US history if they did that lol

 

[Devington]

What's the basis on these reports?

Some tech CEO, I can't remember who, ran with it yesterday that they had been told it.

 

[Val Keating]

Official title of the least intelligent administration in US history if they did that lol

I think they probably did though. Not officially of course

 

[Snake_Baker]

Only the welded on zombies actually think they're any different.

 

[Tectonic]

Only the welded on zombies actually think they're any different.

GOP Congresswoman Blamed California Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser

New York Magazine Subscription Axios has a small squib about “The Mischief Makers,” a handful of idiosyncratic congressional backbenchers who make trouble for their respective party leadership. The leading Democratic mischief-maker is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who advocates some left-wing views...

gvwire.com

Similar in some ways, not all

 

[ferball]

Trading on tick is the foundation of the contemporary stock market

Its kind of the foundation of trade isn't it?

 

[DesertRoo]

Its kind of the foundation of trade isn't it?

Trading on tick is one thing, but trading in futures when no one has ever owned the underlying asset is something different altogether, I thought abusive naked short selling was banned?
yet here we are..

forget the slap on the wrist, teams of people need to go to jail.

 

[ferball]

Where do they borrow the money from? It’s strange when you think about it. The money never really exists. It really is fugazi. if it’s for loans (there’s no real money to be seen) to buy shorts (which there’s nothing physically there). The whole thing is a scam.

 

[Hojuman]

Scared of spiders..........look away 🕷 Huntspersons;



Home invasion in Sydney due to the weather

 

[Nate7]

Scared of spiders..........look away 🕷 Huntspersons;

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Home invasion in Sydney due to the weather

BANNED!

 

[Snake_Baker]

Scared of spiders..........look away 🕷 Huntspersons;

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Home invasion in Sydney due to the weather

No cockroaches in that joint.

 

[Sopwiths North]

Okay, so that was a LOT of spiders.

Need distraction after that. This is really cool -






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[Sopwiths North]

Interesting bit of an interview with David Bowie from back in 80's. I often think it gets overlooked what a thoughtful and intelligent, articulate man he was.